Printed broadside, 8-1/4" x 6-3/4." Old horizontal folds with a few short splits at fold edges [repaired with archival tape, no text loss]. Very Good. Anthony I. Blanchard likely wrote this unrecorded broadside. A Federalist candidate for the State Senate, he attacks the Washington Register, a Salem weekly published from 1803-1830, for vicious and unwarranted attacks on him. Blanchard "has long learned that, when a man submits himself to be a Candidate for office, he becomes a mark for the envenomed arrows of unprovoked and unmerited calumny, injustice and ridicule." Blanchard does not name the source of these slanders. But he makes several puns about his antagonist: "THORN," who is "a THORN to the peace of families; a THORN to female chastity" and a "THORN to public justice and patriotism." Stephen Thorn of Washington County was a New York Assemblyman from 1803-1804. He defeated Blanchard in this 1804 contest for the State Senate. Salem is a little town east of Saratoga Springs and southeast of Lake George on the Vermont Border. Blanchard was District Attorney for northern New York for many years, and appointed the first judge of Washington County. Not in American Imprints or located on OCLC as of December 2023. Not at the online sites of Library of Congress, NYPL, AAS, NYHS. Seller Inventory # 38959

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Publisher: Salem [NY]

Publication Date: 1804

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